Speak
Subtitle: A Short History of Languages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: December 16, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780199263417
First sentence: From Genesis, the first book of the Bible, the reader may infer that Adam was able to speak as soon as he had been created, for he was given a task at once: "And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof."